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Excerpt from The Women of Troy by Pat Barker, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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The Women of Troy by Pat Barker

The Women of Troy

by Pat Barker
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  • Aug 24, 2021, 304 pages
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  • Aug 2022, 304 pages
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Their voices, still chanting hymns and prayers, fade into silence. Somebody whispers: "What happens now?" And Odysseus says: "We wait."

Excerpted from The Women of Troy by Pat Barker. Copyright © 2021 by Pat Barker. Excerpted by permission of Doubleday. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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